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Steve Tombs is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom and has a research background primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans across sociology and political science, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of regulatory and social issues.

Their main fields of study focus predominantly on social sciences, with key subfields including sociology and political science, nature and landscape conservation, general health professions, strategy and management, and political science and international relations.

Steve Tombs' research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Prominent publication venues for their work include:

  • The British Journal of Criminology
  • Revue française de civilisation britannique
  • The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
  • Justice, power and resistance

Frequent collaborators in their research include David Whyte, Victoria Canning, Paddy Hillyard, Joe Sim, and Christina Pantazis.

Several key papers published by Steve Tombs demonstrate their engagement with issues of corporate crime, state violence, and regulatory failures. Examples include:

  • The Shifting Imaginaries of Corporate Crime (2020) in Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime
  • Home as a Site of State-Corporate Violence: Grenfell Tower, Aetiologies and Aftermaths (2020) in The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • Narrating the coronavirus crisis: state talk and state silence in the UK (2022) in Justice, power and resistance
  • The Escalating Crisis of Health and Safety Law Enforcement in Great Britain: What Does Brexit Mean? (2022) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Regulating exposure: routine deaths, work and the Covid crisis (2023) in Mortality

In addition to articles, Steve Tombs has contributed to academic books published by institutions such as Lancaster University and the University of Strathclyde. Notable book publications include:

  • From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction (2021)
  • HSE and Covid at work: a case of regulatory failure (2021)

Best Publications

  • Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously

    P Hillyard;C. Pantazis;S. Tombs;D. Gordon

  • Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry

    Frank Pearce;Steve Tombs

  • From ‘crime’ to social harm?

    Paddy Hillyard;Steve Tombs

  • The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished

    Steve Tombs;David Whyte

  • Class and Health: Research and Longitudinal Data

    Steve Tombs;Richard G. Wilkinson

  • Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful

    Steve Tombs;Dave Whyte

  • IDEOLOGY, HEGEMONY, AND EMPIRICISM Compliance Theories of Regulation

    Frank Pearce;Steve Tombs

  • Leaving a 'Stain Upon the Silence': contemporary criminology and the politics of dissent

    Paddy Hillyard;Joe Sim;Steve Tombs;Dave Whyte

  • Transcending the deregulation debate? Regulation, risk, and the enforcement of health and safety law in the UK

    Steve Tombs;David Whyte

  • A Deadly Consensus Worker Safety and Regulatory Degradation under New Labour

    Steve Tombs;David Whyte

  • Capital, Crime Control and Statecraft in the Entrepreneurial City:

    Roy Coleman;Steve Tombs;Dave Whyte

  • From Social Harm to Zemiology

    Vicky Canning;Steve Tombs

  • Social Protection after the Crisis: Regulation without Enforcement

    Steve Tombs

  • ‘Violence’, Safety Crimes and Criminology

    Steve Tombs

  • Hazards, Law and Class: Contextualizing the Regulation of Corporate Crime:

    Frank Pearce;Steve Tombs

  • Criminal obsessions: Why harm matters more than crime

    D Dorling;D Gordon;P Hillyard;C Pantazis

  • Beyond Criminology?

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  • Unmasking the crimes of the powerful : scrutinizing states & corporations

    Steve Tombs;David Whyte

  • POLICING CORPORATE ‘SKID ROWS’ A Reply to Keith Hawkins

    Frank Pearce;Steve Tombs

  • The Myths and Realities of Deterrence in Workplace Safety Regulation

    Steve Tombs;David Whyte

  • STATE-CORPORATE SYMBIOSIS IN THE PRODUCTION OF CRIME AND HARM

    Steve Tombs

  • The Conventionalization of Early Factory Crime

    Steve Tombs;W G Carson

  • Criminal Obsessions: Why Harm Matters More Than Crime (2nd ed.)

    Danny Dorling;Dave Gordon;Paddy Hillyard;Christina Pantazis

  • Symbiosis in the production of crime and harm

    Steve Tombs

  • Regulating Workplace Safety: Systems and Sanctions

    Steve Tombs

Frequent Co-Authors

Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling University of Oxford
Carolyn J.P. Jones
Carolyn J.P. Jones University of Manchester
Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard G. Wilkinson University of Nottingham

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